Ceetar

7 inning games are the worst. this is stupid.

preemptively angry about 7 innings.

in terms of 'buying' that's probably a small part of it, and it's more about littering the market with options and staggering releases so people are always thinking "buy a jersey" so like, even if you think this is ugly and stupid, you might pivot and think ...but i liked those cool ones they work a few weeks ago, maybe i'll buy one of those. Same difference to them. (No surprise that Cohen tweeted about the black jerseys in the wake of this) Only costs Nike like the 4 cents they pay those 40k oversea workers to whip up a new batch.

like, the Mets are sponsoring the end of innings. It looks like it's stopped temporarily,but they were literally sponsoring grand slams in highlights. And whatever, I gave in on advertising a long time ago. It (much like data collection is today) seemed like a lost cause. But at least a lot of times it was associated with access or improvement. "You can watch this, or get that, because we're going to show you ads with it" Baseball has basically crossed the line where they're actively making the game worse to make an extra buck. You wanna advertise on the jerseys? fine, but make 'em much cheaper for fans to buy. (I get many disagree here, but it's a workable example) You want to shove advertising behind the mound, on strikeouts, on whatever? fine, but shorten the breaks, get guys to the mound faster. Make the reliever run in carrying a giant green GEICO flag if the break is 45 seconds instead of 3 minutes. If the TV Networks said they wanted to advertise on the outfield grass, you KNOW MLB would suddenly instantly manage to make sure there were 20% more balls in play.

=Gwreck post_id=69012 time=1624556533 user_id=56] =Ceetar post_id=69010 time=1624555415 user_id=102] I assume this is Nike's fault (And MLB bending over for a few bucks)

I assume this is Nike's fault (And MLB bending over for a few bucks)

from 2019 [bLOCKQUOTE]Although he loves cooking, Alonso's too busy to break out his chef's knives during the baseball season. But he's glad to leave it up to the Mets' team chef, Theresa Corderi. “Theresa is such an amazing chef,” says Alonso, who will indulge in her mac 'n' cheese after nine calorie-burning innings. (Sometimes, he gets an extra treat: “If I have a good game, I am going to have an ice cream bar.”)[/bLOCKQUOTE]

they need live bodies but Colon would get absolutely LIT in the majors right now.

do you think his mother's name is Meg? And she's sick?

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Mets claim RHP Stock from Cubs, assigned to Syracuse to the MOON

=kcmets post_id=68794 time=1624400672 user_id=53] They just said on SNY that Conforto isn't available tonight with some roster shuffling going on and more to follow tomorrow?

=Ceetar post_id=61986 time=1619269702 user_id=102] I think Sandy goes, and the HR lady, as the token firings. it fits the profile of the fixer. They'll put in some training/seminar things that don't work and call it a day.

The Polio vaccine problems was nearly 70 years ago. If it's relevant in any way, it's in an example of mistakes we made and learned from. As for the Dengue thing, it seems particularly complicated and political. There appears to be reports that the Dengvaxia vaccine has saved and estimated million lives. It's approved for sale in 19 countries. BUT political controversy and perhaps sloppy trial and study seem to have contributed to this unwarranted vaccine hesitancy in the Philippines which may have led to a measles outbreak and 400 deaths. Neither of these, btw, were issues that showed up years later. Even the dengvaxia problems, the small chance it could actually create a WORSE dengue infection, was found pretty early. They're both also related to the thing they're trying to cure. It's not like they discovered that taking dengvaxia makes you more susceptible to Coronavirus or something. That's the straw man most 'hesitant' people seem to be referring to when they argue that it was rushed. it wasn't, it's the culmination of decades of scientific research. There were people arguing that it SHOULD have been rushed even, right around when stage 2 trials finished. But all the evidence on the ground points to extreme caution and adhering to the scientific process. Even the J&J pause that was criticized by many, was overly cautious. There's really no evidence based reason to be hesitant. Maybe I'd buy it months from now, if we've actually reduced cases to almost zero, that you want to wait a year or two to vaccinate your 4 year old because it's not longer a pandemic and a large (but non-zero!) percentage of four year olds aren't really at a risk of infection, of spreading it, or long term side effects. (Not me, my kids are going to be first in line) There is almost no tangible reward in a risk/reward calculation. The risk is astronomical. Like on one hand it's "new global disease like the flu that we constantly battle for decades or more" and on the other it's "uh, maybe one day it'll make me sicker or something?" It'd be like being on a beach in the summer and deciding not to drink anything because it might make you feel bloated and then you'd sink and drown.

I don't see what's so unreasonable about worrying whether or not the covid vaccines needed to go through more testing before being approved. Bad side effects might take a year or even more to manifest themselves. why? what science is there to suggest there's any reason to think something about any of these vaccines has that capability? It again comes down to education, and evil people manipulating their cult members for political gain. Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist, but he's apparently convincing a whole lot of people to be unsafe. The minority community distrust is obviously fair. We've done irreparable harm over the years, especially the last 4. This is a systemic problem, and it's not unrelated to the Carlson thing. Those are probably some of the groups these various incentive programs are helpful for (and should've been started way earlier, with better education/targeting). "Look, I know you don't trust the docs, but just come to this CVS for a quick shot and we'll give you a joint and a bottle of vodka" goes a long way. Also that doesn't really apply to sports/baseball. Almost universally, even the immigrants, those people are just taking random nonsense from the trainer with much less information/study than the vaccine.

=nymr83 post_id=68347 time=1623982581 user_id=54] =Fman99 post_id=68335 time=1623979361 user_id=86] Nope. No excuses. No justification. If you haven't gotten a vaccine yet, you're ignorant, or stupid, or you're under age 12, or you're age 12-17 and your parents fall into categories 1-2.

I'm generalizing here, but to simplify, I'd put those who refuse to get a covid vaccine into two categories: One - those who harbor serious long term safety concerns about the vaccines because the vaccines were rushed to market in a historically unprecedented manner. No vaccines were ever developed and approved in so short a time prior to covid-19. People in this category will tend to be young and very healthy, like professional athletes; Simpler: stupid people. There have been over 3 billion doses. This is an absolutely absurd take and it falls closer to the 'magnets and 5g chip' stance than any legitimate hesitancy. Some of this is poor education by the people supposed to be promoting this stuff, but a lot of it's that these guys lean conservative and while they might not be out and out fascists like the republican party, they still probably do things like listen to Joe Rogan. So any 'safety concerns' are filtered down from the qanon stuff, even if it's not as obvious. I'll absolutely boo these people. At best they're the guy in the office break room sneezing and coughing all over everything and not covering their mouth, while insisting "I don't get sick". Or the guy that visits a newborn without washing his hands.

"it just shows as a normal shoulder a pitcher would have and there's no concern," those two things are mutually exclusive and you absolutely won't phrase it that way if it was "nothing", it certainly wasn't "no issues" as Heyman editorializes.

I haven't been in a doctor's office in quite a while. Do they even have any of that now? water coolers, magazines, bowls of shit?

it's odd to me that the MetsBeat just shrugs at this, despite it having obvious benefits to them too. And them having been vocal about the pandemic restrictions being detrimental to their concept of reporting.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Humans are not designed to throw baseballs at 100 mph over and over in the course of three hours. While he says the problems are not related, I think they're all related to this fact. pitching is harsh on the body. it's not like there's speed regulators in the arm, it's the throwing fastballs thing, not that it's 101 instead of 98 or 95. There hasn't really been any conclusive science that really consistently shows what is or isn't causing injuries.

Maybe he's right, he's been right pretty much every time so far, but I don't see how you just let him make his next start like this. Presumably it'd be Monday vs the Braves. I dunno. He hasn't thrown more than 85 pitches in a game since April, so it 's not like it's a workload thing. But that was two starts ago and then he had problems. Could he be building up too fast? If he wakes up feeling fine again, throws a fine bullpen, can you just let him throw 5 innings and like 60 pitches against the Braves and come out early? What if he's 2 IP from a "no hitter"? pitching is rough. But he's still 7th in Ks with like no innings and first in rWAR. Obviously he won't be the MVP if he gets IL'd again, but if he pitches 160+ innings like he's roughly on pace for, like this? it'll be no doubt.

=Fman99 post_id=68238 time=1623930679 user_id=86] It's the perfect crime because it's so indisputably stupid that no one would believe that it went down that way.

NY has 56.1% of the population with at least one dose. 43.9% of Citi Field is 18,403 unvaccinated people. Many of who will be shouting while standing in elevated tiers above each other, sharing crowded stairwells, and poorly ventilated bathrooms. There are 3310 'active cases' in NYC right now. That's a real small percentage, but all it takes is one or two to spend 45 minutes coughing on dozens on the Shake Shack line to keep spreading it.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I generally like the NEIPAs, that one was was way too "pillowy" as you described. I also suspected it might been skunked a little, just wasn't for me. If I make it to a Tuesday game in the new few weeks I'll sneak you something better, lol. I might actually try this coming Tuesday, though it's the last day of school so we might 'celebrate'. The care of beer at stadiums is rumored to be pretty terrible, though it shouldn't have skunked in a can unless you poured it into a clear glass, and then it's technically on you. looks like deGrom has mostly been switching off catchers, no discernible pattern. going backwards for Nido's last starts Lucchesi, Peterson, deGrom, STroman, Stroman, deGrom, Peterson, Lucchesi, Stroman.

if you write about that experience we'd happily publish it on BarleyProse.com!